Ep. 226: Naruto's crew escapes pirate cannons and avenges islanders on Battleship Island

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Naruto and his crew face fire from makeshift cannons on a pirate-controlled island while traveling to the Land of Lightning. Captain Gataro attempts to sink their vessel, leading to a scuffle where Naruto loses his headband. Yamato uses Wood Style to transform the ship into a submarine-like shell, allowing them to escape into an underwater cavern. While Yamato rests in a hot spring, the group discovers a mass grave. Aoba reads a parchment revealing that pirates slaughtered the original residents and forced survivors into the caves. Naruto takes a ribbon from a grave to use as a temporary headband, vowing to avenge the victims. He devises a plan using clones to disable the cannons and utilizes the underground hot spring to launch their ship from a dormant volcano, destroying the pirate fleet. After tying up Gataro and retrieving his headband, Naruto pays his final respects to the islanders.